The Stamp Duty Debate on Newspapers and Public Instruction
The piece argues against stamp duties on newspapers as a security for press integrity, contending they fail to ensure quality and encourage monopoly. It contrasts legal and medical securities with political instruction, warns of quackery in journalism, and calls for broader, accountable readership to elevate press standards. It weaves in a banquet scene and political obituary to Earl Grey, predicting the Premier’s departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Brougham
Physicians and Surgeons
Quack Legal
Quack Medical
Edinburgh
Earl Grey
Scotland
Glasgow
Perth
Duke of Hamilton
Earl of Rosebery
Childe Harold
Assaults and burglaries in London area reported
Police report details a violent assault on Mr John M Nulty by his brother in law Charles Whitroe with a 40 shilling penalty imposed. Burglary cases include theft from Mr Twining in Norfolk Street and robberies at Mrs Irvin’s Barron’s Buildings and Mrs Haigh’s Cartwright Street. A youth named Hackey from Soho Square is committed for trial after stealing from Messrs Walker and Son.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen Square
John MM. Nulty
Great Peterstreet
Westminster
Burrell and White
Charles Whittoe
Strutton-ground
M’nulty
Haighs
Cartwright-street
Rosemary-lane
Bank of England
Marlborough-Street
Hackey
Walker
Soho-square
Dyer
Shipping Intelligence This Day From Lloyds
Shipping news lists arrivals from various ports with vessels including the Courier from Algoa Bay, the Mauice from Quebec, the Amphitrite from Buenos Ayres, the Concord from Havannah, the Sarah from Naples, the Duke of York from Halifax, the Adelaide from Leghorn, and several others including ships from Smyrna, Jamaica, Trinidad, and Charlestown. Several lines note dates and minor incidents such as loss of mainmast on the Smyrna.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lloyd’s
Orr Margate
Courier
Palmer
Algoa Bay
Downs
Mauice
Harrison
Quebec
Cowes
Amphitrite
Gerret
Buenos Ayres
Havannah
Portsmouth
Sarah
Wells
Naples
Falmouth
Halifax
Bristol
Adelaide
Leghorn
Mixtrorp
Smyrna
Liverpool
Mary
Jamaica
Trinidad
Elizabeth
Charleston
Crawford
Wairenaven
Douro
Little
Antigua
River
Dorothea
Grenada
Lisbon
Hampshire
Montreal
Recovery
Oporto
Speriod
St. Vincent’s
Jane
Monte Video
Markets News Wheat and malting barley demand decline
Markets report for this day notes wheat old and new largely exhausted with few fresh supplies, oats scarce and dearer, barley inquired for malting with steady prices, beans and peas dull, ship flour in good demand at 34s to 37s, town malt sold heavily at 45s, arrivals include English and foreign wheat barley malt oats and flour figures with thousands of sacks traded.
Newgate and Leadenhall Meat Market Prices and Supplies
Meat supplies were abundant at Newgate and Leadenhall with beef from Norfolk and Suffolk of prime quality and plentiful. Mutton mainly Leicester and South Devon, lamb poor from hay feeding, veal and Irish pork lower quality, English pork good. Partridges priced 4s to 6s a brace. eggs and butter plentiful, trade dull, prices steady. Veal prices edged down 1d per stone. pork ranges 2s 8d to 8s 1d. lamb 4s 10d to 5s 2d.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newgate
Leadenhall
Norfolk
Suffolk
Leicester
South Dewons
Colonial Markets and Wesleyan Letters in 1787 British Trade
Domestic business in Colonial Markets is light with little shipping activity to the Mediterranean. Prices are steady with many articles quoted nominally. sugar, rum, tea, and cocoa show firm or limited demand and full prices. An original Wesley letter to William Percival advocates church attendance and caution against evil speaking. A Bristol Journal report notes reduced Recorder duties post-riot era and a Lewin's Mead assault risk with a potential capital offence. An excerpt from Cobbett’s Registry cites warnings against public figures amid Times coverage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mediterranean
Sucar
B. P
Mauritius
Venga
East
Rerikep
Corree
Jamaica
India
Congou
Farnham
Wesley
William Perciva
Newcastle-upon-Text
Billy
Church of England
Percival
Hilly
J. Wesley
London
Wesleyan Meth. Mag
Charles Wetherell
Lewin’s Mead
Michael Shaughnessy
Bristol Journal
Lory Brown Gham
Cobbett
Berwick Smack
Times
The
Echoes of Spanish Crisis and Cabinet Speculation in Madrid
A Paris correspondent reports rising pressures in Madrid as Cortes reforms and opposition gains threaten the milky ministry. Names like Arguelles and Garcia surface as potential ministers while Queen Isabella visits Moncloa and cholera worsens in some cities. The piece notes hopes for Cortes Bonds recognition but warns that paying yields more than a simple step, with international intrigue swirling around Thiers, Don Carlos, and European powers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pope
M. Thiers
Spain
Telegraph
Don Carlos
Cortes
Madrid
Spanish Chamber of Deputies
National
St. James
Grenada
Ferdinand VII
Cadiz
Doughty Duc d
Ile
Arguelles
Garcia
Herreros de Calatrava
Gil de la Cuadra Galiano
Geronimo Valdes
Monclon
Manzanares
Saragossa
Tarragona
Barcelona
Nous Verrons
Terard
Thiers
Metternich Academy
Holland
Texel
Adriatic
Dupin
M. Molé
M. Passy
M. de Bignon
M. Etienne
Duc de Broglie
Sebastiani
Switzerland
Universal Statistical Society
Paris
M.casar Moreau
London
Great Britain
M. Caesar Moreau
Correction to Pauper case report in Frue Sun
Fras Herbert of Pimlico writes to the editor to amend the published account of a young man charged with embezzlement. He states witnesses could have proven non receipt of prints entrusted to the accused, notes magistrates’ sympathy for the complainant, and says the debtor should repay costs with a reprimand. He explains his client Newman aimed to raise funds to fulfill duties as Depositary to the Portensian Bible Society.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Union-hall
Newman
Portensian Bible Society
Jam
FRAS
Herbert
Pimlico
Respect for the Law at Westminster Sessions and Local Inquest
Reports from Westminster detail a murder verdict for Catterns connected to a shooting at Moseley and an insane case awaiting trial in Worcester jail. At Norwich’s Windmill, an inquest on J Smith, an elderly sailor, concluded death by opium in a state of temporary derangement after repeated self harm and dangerous life history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hells
Pickering-place
Michael Ryley
General Hospital
Sthult
Fighting Cocks
Moseley
Catterns
Worcester
Birmingham Gazette
New Carlton
Norwich
J. Smith
Norete Aper
Opera of the Mountain Sylph at Lyceum Third Notice
A critical discussion of Goldsmiths view on perception contrasts a nonmusical audience with the musician understanding an opera as a unified whole. The reviewer explains how unity of purpose shapes delight and outlines key musical phrases from the Sylph’s song and Etherias recitative.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lyceum
Goldsmith
Genius
Etheria
Court Circular: Viscounts and officials visit London offices
Viscount Melbourne arrived in town and met Viscount Palmerston at the Foreign Office. Mr Secretary Rice met Melbourne at the Treasury. Viscount Althorp was expected from Northamptonshire. Burge and others held interviews with Rice at the Colonial Office. Dispatches dated July 18 from Bahamas and Jamaica governors arrived.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Viscount Melbourne
Viscount Palmerston
Foreign Office
Rice
Treasury
Viscount Althorp
St. Alban’s
Althorp Park
Northamptonshire
Burge
Jamaica
Hoo
Robert Grant
Whitmore
M.P
Murryat
Colonial Office
Bahamas
Marquis of Sligo
Master Builders Meet Over Trade Union Veto at Holborn
A preliminary gathering at Feathers Tavern Handcourt Holborn condemns builder monopoly and the demand that workers sign a declaration they do not belong to any Trades Union. Resolutions condemn the practice and pledge to defend operatives who refuse to sign. A committee and subscription fund are created for a public meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Feathers’ Tavern
Handcourt
Holborn
Lovick
Gray’s Inn Lane
Dancombe
Roberts
Cantelow
Bodger
Bickerton
Wilde
Rablet
Partridges kill seven at Great Bromley in a deadly attack
A Essex Mercury brief notes a violent partridge assault on the back of Mr. Sarjeant’s Great Bromley house. Seven birds died instantly, three and a half brace, while one fled seemingly unharmed, the incident cited alongside a literary reminiscence about old travel and feudal life.
Diverse extracts on manners and law from 17th century periodicals
A collage of excerpts covers satirical quips about royalty and marriage, notes on Sunday law, a humorous alderman’s receipt, a description of Aleppo’s commerce, reflections on sailors and literature, a mock squire, and early anti-slavery actions in Massachusetts, highlighting social norms, governance, and transatlantic concerns of the era.
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Macbeth
Banquo
Bengcan Prerest
Kent
East India Company
St. Katherine’s
Juan Jose Viamonte
Senate
Stock Exchange Spanish
South Sea
Lloyd's
Dean Lockier
Gravesend
Dominion Council
St. Jamess Palace
City of London
Germany
3D Light Dragoons
St. James’s Palace
Windsor
Herbert Taylor
Foot Guards
2D Life Guards
Royal Horse Guards
Derlow
Malcolm
Porson
Granville Homer
Essex Court
Heber
Lord Grenville
Homer
Oxford
Bartholomew Fair
Smithfield
Plough
Carey-street
Lincoln’s Inn-fields
Perring
Strand
Shipping Intelligence
Frue Sun
Donald
Etherea
Master Builders
Philip IV
Valenzuela
Ferdinand
Godoy
Christina
Isabella
Richmond
Sion House
Fair
Literary Gazette
Voltaire
Luke Gore
Gore
New York Ensquirer
Goethe
Foreign Quarterly Review
Dominick Roche
George Terry
Cork
Gale
Ireland
Aleppo
Syria
Asia
Minor
Armenia
Damascus
Akka
Tripoli
Sir A. Renew
England
le Breton
Nantes
Marvelais
Taz Sartor
Blackwood
America
Thomas Keyser
James Smith
Church of Boston
Guinea
Massachusetts
Richard Saltonstall
Bancroft
United States
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